The process of evaluating your collection for relevancy, utility to the client base, and physical condition and removing those which are deemed unsuitable or inappropriate for the collection. The criteria for weeding are generally agreed upon by all librarians at a site (if the library is a large one). Solo librarians may have to write their own criteria. Weeding is important for libraries having limited space.
Removing unwanted plants by hand from a crop, or tillage action which lightly cultivates the soil for the purpose of destroying the weeds.
tending operation done in the seedling stage in a nursery or in a forest crop that involves the removal or cutting back of all weeds. Cf. Cleaning.
The process of removing from a library collection materials that are of no use to the library because they are outdated, in poor physical condition, or no longer read by the library's patrons. A regular, systematic weeding program is essential to collection development.
The selection of library material from the collection to be discarded or transferred to storage because of its poor physical condition, outdated content, or limited popularity; weeding is an essential a part of collection maintenance
The removal of an item, determined to have little or no further use, from a collection. The item can be placed in storage or discarded.
the removal of all plants competing with a crop species, regardless of whether their crowns are above, beside, or below those of the desirable trees. Removal of diseased, damaged, and poor quality trees.
The process of removing materials from the collection that are either in bad condition, no longer accurate, or replaced by other newer materials or more recent editions of the same publication.
The systematic process, also known as deaccessioning, involving removal of old or outdated materials from a library collection to make room for newer items. Weeding is an important process in maintaining a current and diverse collection for the community served by the library. See www.havana.lib.il.us/library/weeding.html | See also CREW manual
Part of collection management that selects library materials to be discarded or transferred to storage, based on standards of use, currency, condition and community needs.
The selection and removal of individual documents, records, or files from a record series due to their failure to possess continuing primary or secondary value. Weeding is also known as purging.
the process of "refining" collections by removing obsolete or unusable materials from the library.
Removing unwanted herbaceous growth. See also cleaning and spot weeding.
